Large Chinese bronze archaistic Hu vase, Qing dynasty, late 18th to 19th century 1780 - 1840

Unknown artist

BronzeMetal
40 ⨯ 36 cm, ø 26 cm
ConditionGood
€ 7.000

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• About the artwork
  A large Chinese bronze archaistic Hu vase.
  Qing dynasty, late 18th to 19th century.
  
  The bulbous body rising from a tall splayed foot into a waisted neck with flaring mouth and two loop handles issuing mythical beasts, cast in relief with bands of taotie masks and kui dragons against a leiwen ground. Cast bronze with cast and cold-worked decoration, damascened overlays of silver and gold.
  
  Provenance:
  Formerly in a private Belgian collection.
  
  Ref:
  Compare with another bronze Hu vessel in the Clague Collection, number 241, illustrated in China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 (Robert D. Mowry, 1993), p. 194, no. 42.
  
  Dimensions:
  Height 40 cm, width with handles 36 cm, diameter 26 cm.
  
  Condition:
  Good condition with a nice patina, tiny hole to the bottom and a small piece of the mythical beasts horn-end possibly chipped off but this could also be a casting flaw.
  
  Inv. No: MW243
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